Supported Build Platforms

Version Summary Table

Summary of Supported Build Platforms:

Platform	Version	Release date	Expected EOL	Supported Until	Python version
Debian	10 (Buster)	2019-07-06	~2022	Up to 2 years after Debian 11 release	3.7.3
	9 (Stretch)	2017-06-17	2020-07-06	EOL	3.5.3
RHEL	8	2019-05-07	?	Up to 2 years after next RHEL release	3.6
	7	2014-06-09	?	2022-05-07	3.6.3
SLES	15	2018-07-16	2028-07-31	Up to 2 years after next SLES release	3.6.10
	12	2014-10-27	2024-10-31	2020-07-16	3.6.8?
Ubuntu LTS	20.04 (Focal Fosa)	2018-04-26	April 2025	Up to 2 years after next Ubuntu LTS release	3.8.2
	18.04 (Bionic Beaver)	2018-04-26	April 2023	Up to 2 years after next Ubuntu LTS release	3.6.9, 3.7.5, 3.8.0
Fedora	Rawhide	n/a	n/a	n/a	3.9.0-rc1, 3.8.6-rc1, 3.7.9, 3.6.12 (as of 2020-09-17)
	32	2020-04-28	Fedora 34 release + 4 weeks	EOL	3.8.6, 3.7.9, 3.6.12 (as of 2020-09-17)
	31	2019-10-29	Fedora 33 release + 4 weeks	EOL	3.8.5, 3.7.9, 3.6.12 (as of 2020-09-17)
openSUSE	Tumbleweed	n/a	n/a	n/a	3.8.5, 3.6.12 (as of 2020-09-17)
	Leap 15.2	?	2021-12	EOL	3.6.10
	Leap 15.1	?	2020-11	EOL	3.6.10
Ubuntu	20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	2020-10-22	July 2021	EOL (July 2021)	3.8.5
FreeBSD	12	2018-12-11	2024-06-30	EOL	From FreeBSD ports: 3.8.5, 3.7.9, 3.6.12 (as of 2020-09-17)
	11	2016-10	2021-09-30	EOL
NetBSD	9	2020-02-14	?	?	From pkgsrc: 3.8.5, 3.7.9, 3.6.12 (as of 2020-09-17)
	8	2018-07-17	?	2022-02-14
	7	2015-09-25	2020-06-30	2020-07-17
OpenBSD	6.7				From OpenBSD ports: 3.8.5, 3.7.9 (as of 2020-09-17)
	6.6
	6.5	2019-05-01	~April 2020	~April 2020
	6.4	2018-10-18	~October 2019	~October 2019
macOS	Catalina (10.15)				From Homebrew: 3.8.5, 3.7.9 (as of 2020-09-17)
	Mojave (10.14)

Useful links

• Python package version database on Repology

Command for querying Repology API:

curl -s 'https://repology.org/api/v1/project/python' | \
  jq -r 'group_by(.repo) | .[] | "\(.[0].repo): \(map(.version))"' | \
  egrep -i 'fedora|ubuntu|debian|rhel|centos|bsd|suse|sles|homebrew|pkgsrc'

Fedora

• Fedora releases
• Maintenance Schedule

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu releases

Debian

• Debian releases

openSUSE

• openSUSE Lifetime

FreeBSD

• Supported FreeBSD releases

NetBSD

• NetBSD formal releases

OpenBSD

• OpenBSD Flavors

macOS

• macOS versions

SUSE

• SUSE Package Hub
• python3 at SUSE Package Hub
• SUSE release information
  • SLED 15 is ID 1609
  • SLES 15.2/x86_64 is 1939
• python packages in SLED 15

Listing SLES product IDs:

curl -s 'https://scc.suse.com/api/package_search/products' | \
  jq -r '.data[] | select(.identifier | test("SLES/")) | "\(.id) - \(.name) \(.identifier)"'

Listing Python versions in SLES 15.2/x86_64:

curl -s 'https://scc.suse.com/api/package_search/packages?product_id=1939&query=python' | \
  jq -r '.data[] | select(.name | match("^python[0-9]*$")) | "\(.name) \(.version) \(.arch)"'